{"id":897332,"date":"2026-09-19T04:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897332\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T04:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:30:12","slug":"australia-to-face-canada-in-world-cup-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897332\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia to face Canada in World Cup Quarter-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Gangurrus women&#8217;s team are through to the FIBA under 23s World Cup Quarter-Finals after clean-sweeping their group fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>The Aussies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnbl.com.au\/news\/wnbl-rising-stars-lead-australias-3x3-world-cup-tilt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">led by Adelaide&#8217;s Tayla Brazel and Townsville&#8217;s Catelyn Van Es<\/a>, opened their accounts in China by defeating Japan 20-11, before outlasting Kenya 21-12.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s two wins were backed up by victories over Slovenia (20-17) and the United States (forfeit).<\/p>\n<p>The Gangurrus, who also feature former Sydney Flame Carla Pitman and former Centre of Excellence talent Sophie Taylor, finished on top of Group D thanks to these four wins.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for the green and gold stars are Canada, who finished second in Group B, in the Quarter-Finals.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian men&#8217;s team, featuring Devan Craig, Keegan Phillips, Griffin Bower and Will Mahoney, topped Group C and will face the Netherlands in the Quarter-Finals.<\/p>\n<p>All matches will be streamed live on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@FIBA3x3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> FIBA 3X3 YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789792212_207_6a66a3063ae7a05648d77d3f_WNBL_Article Banner_1920x250.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian Gangurrus women&#8217;s team are through to the FIBA under 23s World Cup Quarter-Finals after clean-sweeping their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-897332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}